Russia bombards Ukraine with drones and missiles a day before planned peace talks (apnews.com)

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Russia carried out a major overnight attack on Ukraine in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday was a broken commitment to halt striking energy infrastructure as the countries prepared for more talks on ending Moscow’s 4-year-old full-scale invasion.

The bombardment included hundreds of drones and a record 32 ballistic missiles, wounding at least 10 people. It specifically took aim at the power grid, Zelenskyy said, as part of what Ukraine says is Moscow’s ongoing campaign to deny civilians light, heating and running water during the coldest winter in years.

“Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than diplomacy,” Zelenskyy said. Temperatures in Kyiv fell to minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) during the night and stood at minus 16 C (minus 3 F) on Tuesday.

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[-] Sepia@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

As an addition, we must again regognize that tankies and other extremists literally celebrate these actions by Russia as one study says:

... The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy ... reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. ...

[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Everyone who thinks the study is incorrect for whatever reason is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments there. They are testimony of a deeply repugnant mindset.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com -1 points 1 day ago

Your beloved EU materially supports the genocide in Gaza. That's pretty extremist if you ask me. A total agenda spammer who constantly copy/pastes everything accusing others of having a repugnant mindset is comical.

[-] Sepia@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Celebrating violence against civilians, including children, is - at best - the result of brainwashing, and it is mentally derailed at worst. You can have a different opinion, like different things, agree where others disagree. Even whataboutism, as bad as it is, remains on a higher human level. But literally cheering the suffering of innocent people is, in my opinion, unreconcilable with human civilization in the 21st century.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

And here we have one of those braindead tankies attempting pathetic whataboutism in defence of their Putin bootlicking.

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